We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and Symantec Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon, Microsoft, F5 and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."The most valuable features of this solution are the WAF protection, Data Safe, and the seven-layer DDoS."
"The solution isn't too expensive. The license allows you to license what you need and leave out what you don't need."
"It is easy to obtain dashboard compliance because security policy views are included."
"The initial setup was was easy to install."
"It's flexible and powerful, and the users can input their own rules to the system."
"There are a lot of good features."
"The most valuable features of the F5 Advanced WAF are the enhanced ASM and the performance. Additionally, the usability and effectiveness are very good."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the security features and the protection."
"The solution has an up-to-date data repository to deal with external threats."
"The setup was straightforward."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"There should be more ability to rate limit certain scenarios. The majority of the time, it is either on or off. For certain types of use cases, there should be the ability to rate limit, not just enable or disable."
"Its price should be better. It is expensive."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve the reporting. It's a bit difficult to populate, them. If you're not so familiar with the functions, such as where to find the logs and other settings."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve the precision of the scanning. There are many false positives. They should improve their threat database."
"Scalability could be improved."
"There is a gap in report management."
"There is a learning curve that extends the time of implementation."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve on its funding for WAF features. There is a need to be more advanced WAF features."
"I'm not convinced that it's necessary the best solution going forward in the future."
"It would be an improvement if the management dashboards were not reliant upon Java."
"Sometimes scanning slows down the endpoints."
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F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 53 reviews while Symantec Web Application Firewall is ranked 35th in Web Application Firewall (WAF). F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while Symantec Web Application Firewall is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Web Application Firewall writes "An excellent up-to-date data repository handling external threats successfully". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Imperva Web Application Firewall, AWS WAF and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas Symantec Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Imperva DDoS and WAPPLES.
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